RCOS "Professional Series" Equatorial Fork Mounts...
Specifically designed for the RC Optical Systems 32RC - 40RC (.81m - 1.0m) Telescopes.
RCOS 32RC and Equatorial Fork Mount currently In process!
Mechanical Features:
- Designed, Engineered, Modeled using SolidWorks 2009. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) on assembly and critical components.
- 100% CNC machined.
- Fabricated (and then welded) Carbon Steel Plate.
- Annealed, then machine bearing bores and critical surfaces.
- Span between fork arms - 54 inches.
- "Swing Through" (from Bearing Axle) 40 inches clearance.
Controller Features:
- Fully Robotic, allows user to remote control the Equatorial Fork Mount and Telescope via Network Connection.
- Brushless Direct Drive DC-servo cartridge motors.
- Maximum slew speed of 5 degrees per second in azimuth and 5 degrees per second in elevation.
- Sophisticated dual-loop servo control on each axis. Ultra high precision axis encoders (resolutions <0.002 arc-sec).
- Field upgradeable flash RAM permits easy software updates.
- Unlimited selection of tracking and slew rate control.
- Built-in home sensor circuitry on each axis ensure that the mount always knows its orientation (after a one-time initialization), even after power failure (repeatability < 0.02 arc-sec).
- Software controlled "hard limits" prevent the mount from tracking or slewing into itself.
- User-defined parameters can be stored to onboard flash RAM.
- Numerous safety features critical to remote operation including current-limit protection, encoder-error limits, acceleration ramping, and user-definable maximum slew speeds.
- Joystick or PC software control. Compatible with third party guiding systems.
- Optional Linux Operating System.
- Control system can track at true lunar, solar, minor planet or comet, NEO or LEO satellite rates, or at almost any user-defined rate or trajectory.
- Compatible with any ASCOM compatible planetary program.
- Drivers for non-Windows operating systems available upon request.
- Accurate continuous correction of refraction in both pointing and tracking.
- Embedded mechanical modeling correction provides extremely accurate pointing and tracking.